Most stations don't broadcast from Lake Mountain so a lot of Saratoga Springs (UT for the other reading this) is in the dark from Farnsworth.
I do have that half-finished project to take my fiber up the mountain to my tower. I wonder if that is the missing link to interest the broadcasters of DTV to use Lake Mountain? They would need a large capacity low latency fiber path from SLC to the equipment on Lake Mountain to facilitate that, wouldn't they? I also have pathing down I-15 as well... -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2021 10:59 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Cc: ch...@go-mtc.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Network Transport of Local Broadcast TV If the stations will give you retransmission permission you can do it. But they probably won't and they certainly won't for free with the possible exception of KSL. There are TV translators on Lake Mountain. Cannot they receive signals from there? SCOTUS shot down the aereo case years ago where they put a pile of centralized slingbox type of devices sharing an antenna system. But, would you get caught? Probably not. And I presume the broadcasters would have to bring a case against you. Pretty sure the FCC would not carry any enforcement water on their behalf. You might get a letter from the FCC saying to stop. I doubt there would be a fine since you are not broadcasting RF. -----Original Message----- From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2021 10:47 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: [AFMUG] Network Transport of Local Broadcast TV I know we've discussed this before, but I forget if it's possible/legal to do. I've got customers in my network footprint that cannot receive public OTA TV because they are blocked from seeing Farnsworth Peak in SLC, UT. Is it possible technically to live tranceive the entire available spectrum from an area that can receive it and set it up as a streaming service to my own customers in network? I'm not looking to charge anything, just to provide a solution here that is both legal and effective. Bandwidth isn't much of a concern, but I don't think I want to just provide the raw DTV entire band(s) and transmit those because they are HUGE. So I know I would want to live encode everything, and then have some way for customers to decode that maybe just back into coax feed from Ethernet. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
